Dr Lane Hinchcliffe is a medical doctor, composer, singer and pianist as well as the Managing Director and Program Co-ordinator of Project 15. Lane thinks of his work with adolescents as a passion, which came to him indirectly while working during his university years as a school boarding house master. Project 15 takes training sessions [...]
Wendy McCarthy AO is the Chair of headspace – Australia’s National Youth Mental Health Foundation. Over a long career in public life, Wendy McCarthy Wendy McCarthy has held executive and non-executive director roles in many of Australia’s leading private and public institutions. On Tuesday 10 March 2015, Wendy McCarthy joined Matt Noffs, founder of the Street [...]
Matt Noffs is the co-founder – with his wife Naomi – of Sydney’s Street University with centres at Liverpool and Mount Druit. The grandson of Ted Noffs who set up Sydney Wayside Chapel in the 1960s, Matt sees hundreds of young people every week and his organisation is now expanding into Queensland helped by funding [...]
As NSW Minister for Family and Community Services, The Hon Gabrielle Upton, a lawyer, and former investment banker and company director, is using her outside experience to drive new approaches to affordable social housing more then ever needed in her state. NSW has the largest social housing system in Australia, with 140,000 dwellings supporting 295,000 [...]
Who was the most innovative general of World War One? For The Hon Tim Fischer, former National Party leader and Deputy Prime Minister, the answer has to be Australia’s “Maestro” John Monash, a man who, for all the recognition he received in his lifetime and after, has arguably not been given his proper due. Fischer [...]
NSW State Treasurer, The Hon Andrew Constance, delivered his first Budget in 2014 for the new government of Premier Mike Baird. His first year as State Treasurer was marked by good news for NSW. Growth and infrastructure development are key words in this. As NSW approached the State election in March 2015, the Baird Government’s [...]
Aaron Y. Zelin is the Richard Borow fellow at The Washington Institute. His research focuses on how jihadist groups are adjusting to the new political environment in the era of Arab uprisings and Salafi politics in countries transitioning to democracy. Dr Zelin is a frequent contributor to Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, and the Atlantic, and [...]
